Pol writes:
From the Conde Nast Traveler Top Friendliest Cities. Dublin made it at number 5 but look at the photo they chose to use.
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Pol writes:
From the Conde Nast Traveler Top Friendliest Cities. Dublin made it at number 5 but look at the photo they chose to use.
What am I not seeing in this photo?
The spire, for a start…..
Starbucks on the corner.
But look at those damn fine trees we had!
Why are the rear reg plates red?
Ah, bless you.
It was the 80’s, it was a wilder time
Aww.
Publication in file photo utilisation shocker!
Oh, I get it! In a weird post-postmodern twist, they actually used a photo of Dublin….
…I don’t get it, do I?
Ah, it’s old. Back to bed for me…
Red number plates, no spire, Irish Nationwide on the corner, Irish Permanent on the next corner. The ‘Conde Nast Traveller’ magazine survey of friendliest and unfriendliest cities might be from August 2014, but the picture they used to show the city is approx. 30 years old.
Ah! I thought it was the friendliest city of 1996. Now it makes sense.
Buses were greener back then
Does anyone here remember the scourage of blood filled syringe attacks on O Connell street in the 80’s ? That wasnt too friendly …
Sure, but free AIDS is nothing to be sniffed at.
Unless it’s Super Aids :O
Or Good Aids
Is that a lime green Opel Ascona crossing the bridge to southside? And they say the 70s was the decade that style forgot.
No Romanian beggars on O’Connell Bridge, no heroin/methodone/diazepam folks stumbling along the boardwalk, no chuggers, no open air drugs market on the corner of Aston Quay/Westmoreland Street, no wandering hordes filling time before the hostels open, no pools of vomit/piss/blood and the only people who wore tracksuits were sporty.
Would you prefer Conde Nast used a photograph of O’Connell Street today?
Zoom in for the glue-sniffin’.
Stay for the ATM beggars
Indeed Dublin was a nicer place in the 80’s, if you look back on it with massive rose tinted glasses and ignore everything bad about Dublin in the 80s.
+1
Excellent.
The 80’s had enough vomit, piss and blood in it to flood the city. Any man pickled in powers whiskey and sucking on the butt of a Carrolls or Major would punch you between the eyes for saying different.
Not a single taxi to be seen? How did people manage without taxis! The madness of it all!
confusing headline
Yep.
the dude carrying the bag of cement or whatever it is behind the blue van heading north… he would be mown over if he did that now…
“DIX Transport”? I suppose that’s kind of funny. Is that it?
Ah yes, back when o’connell street had a little character.
Now it just has junkies.
One cyclist!
Dublin in the 80s was a horrible, car-centric place with no outlet for bearded baristas on fixies in search of a craft brew.
and the rocky road to Dublin 1 2 3 4 5
that’s fine
The only difference I can see is that today the traffic jam is made up of empty taxis getting in each others way.
Simpler times: pop into Michael Fingleton’s Irish Nationwide on the corner and see about a loan for a trophy house in Straffan.